Konrad hatjssner



(No Modl.) K. HAUSSNBR.- VEHICLE WHEEL.

Patented Nov. 15,1892.

W" ed UNITED STATES KONRAD HAUSSNER, OF

PATENT OEEICE.`

INGOLS'IADT, GERMANY.

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,106, dated November 15, 1892.

'Application tiled July 29, 1891.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, KONRAD HAUSSNER, residing at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved Wheel to be used more particularly for trucks and gun-carriages, though the Wheel may be used for vehicles generally. My improved wheel is made light and strong and its spokes may be readily replaced.

The invention consists in the var' us features of improvement, more fully po'nted out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, F gure 1 is aside elevation of the hub; Fig. 2, side elevation of part of the entire Wheel; Fig. 2b, a transverse section through the sam Fig. 3a, a side View of nut D and cap E, an Fig. 3b, a section through the same.

The letters A A represent a pair of annular tinted or corrugated disks of conical shape, so as toincline inwardly or diverge from their periphery toward their center and to orm a series of adjacent sector-shaped spolffe-mortises m between them. The corruations forming these mortises are of radi l form and extend from center to periphery f each disk. To this particular shape of te disks I attach considerable importance, a by it their power to resist lateral pre greatly increased. The disks A A ar over the tube B, having an offset b which the disk Aabuts. The disk to the tube B by means of a nut b2, engaging a thread b of the tube and beari g against the disk. The tenons s of the spkes s are received by the mortises x and ar in contact with each otherat theirinner ends. By screwing up the nut b2 they are tig tly held in place. Near their periphery th disks A A are connected by a series of scre -bolts cl.

slipped against Serial No. 401,033. (No model.)

C is the tire of the wheel, made of U-shaped band iron or steel and protected on its inn or open side by sheet-metal covering-plates Within this tire there are received nuts having lugs d. that engage notches d2 in he tire-fiange. These lugs d when engaging he notches prevent the nuts from turning. nut D receives a screw-cap E, that in turn receives a metal cap 5, :lipped over th outer spoke-tenen s2. 4To replace aspoke, the bolts d are removed, the nut b2 taken off, d the disk A drawn back. The cap E is now crewed into nut D and the tenon s2, with i cap 8, is introduced in'to the cap E, While he tenon s is introduced into its mortise az. The nut b2 is then screwed up, the bolts` d ,are reintroduced, and the nut D is revolve/d until the proper degree of tension has been obtained.

what I Claim isl. The combination of tube B with a pair of conical disks provided with radial corrugations to form a series off adjacent spokereceiving mortises which widen from the center toward the periphery and with spokes within the mortises and yin contact with each other at the center, substantially as specified.

A2. The combination of U-shaped tire C with nuts D, received by the tire, and with caps E, received by such nuts, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of U-shaped notched tire C with the inner protecting-plates c and With the nuts D, having lugs d', and with caps E, received by such nuts, substantially as speciiied.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

KONRAD HAUSSNER.

Witn esses:

ALBERT WEICKMAR,

H. NICKELL. 

